Grazing More with Less, "Moneyball" with grass cattle

In the Spring of 2023 I was given the opportunity to speak at the Central Missouri Forage & Beef Conference in Vienna, MO.  The title assigned to me was "Grazing more with Less".  I talked about using a "Moneyball" approach to a Southern Missouri grass ranch cow-calf operation. 

Moneyball is a movie based on the 2003 nonfiction book, "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game", by Michael Lewis. The book is an account of the Oakland Athletics baseball team's 2002 season and their general manager Billy Beane's attempts to assemble a competitive team. In the film, Beane (Brad Pitt) and assistant general manager Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), faced with the franchise's limited budget for players, build a team of undervalued talent by taking a sophisticated sabermetric approach to scouting and analyzing players.

Here is a video of the presentation: